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春の七草

According to my Japanese dictionary these are the seven vernal flowers which are: * Java water dropwort * Shepherd’s purse * Jersey cudweed * Common chickweed * Japanese nipplewort * Turnip * Daikon
Dec 26, 2010
japan

A dining platform built across a river

According to www.jisho.org 床【ゆか】can mean one of three things: 1. floor; 2. stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); 3. dining platform built across a river; The second meaning is obscure enough, but a “dining platform built across a river”? Does anyone know what that
Sep 29, 2009
punctuation

Interrobang

The interrobang or interabang[1] (pronounced /ɪnˈtɛrəbæŋ/), ‽, is a nonstandard English-language punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also called the interrogative point) and the exclamation mark or exclamation point (known in printers’ jargon as the bang). The ligature is a superimposition of those two marks.
Sep 19, 2009
words

Salmagundi

The word salmagundi is derived from the French word salmigondis which means disparate assembly of things, ideas or people, forming an incoherent whole. Salmagundi is used figuratively in modern English to mean a mixture or assortment of things. via Salmagundi – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmagundi]
Sep 18, 2009
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